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Biggest. Domain. Tasting. Day. Ever.

Jay Westerdal writes on The DomainTools Blog:

Today was the largest Domain Tasting day ever. We recorded over 8 Million Transactions today. This is a new high. We have never seen 8 Million transactions on one day before. That would be either an add or delete. Over 99 percent of these transactions are completely free and use the 5 day grace period to test domain names for traffic before they are purchase for a long term buy. Sometimes organizations will taste a domain name for multiple 5 day windows. They can tie up a domain for a long time and test it longer.

Domain Tasting seems to be getting worse, the number of transactions continues to grow.

posted by Fergie @ 8/12/2007 12:07:00 PM